Toy wall-telephone.



M. & W. KANTER.

TOY WALL TELEPHONE. APPLICATION TILED NOV. 16, 1912.

1,088,661, Patented Feb. 24, 1914.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARCUS KANTER AND WILLIAM KANTER, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNORS TO ABRAHAM KANTER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

TOY WALL-TELEPHONE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 24, 1914.

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that we, MARCUS KANTER and VILLIAM KANTER, citizens of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Wall-Telephones of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a toy wall telephone, all substantially as shown and described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the telephone complete, and Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional elevation thereof, the design being modeled after the full sized telephone generall in use. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the base p ate. Fig. 4: is a sectional elevation of the hammer and its spring support. Fig. 5 is a detail of one of the side plates. Fi 6 is a plan on line ma:, Fig. 2. Fig. i is a detail of the crank shaft or rod which rings the bell.

The object of the invention is to provide a toy phone for children which can be cheaply manufactured and contains all the essential parts and features of the wall telephone in every day use, at least so far as external appearances go and having certain parts which will operate as the bell and the means to ring the same when a message is to be sent. To these ends the box proper is made of four different tin or sheet metal pieces which are stamped out by means of suitable dies both as to shape and individual portions adapting said parts to be assembled and locked together. Thus, the back or base of the box is represented by b, the outline of which is shown in Fig. 1 and which is provided with short slots 2 at intervals transversely and at its side edges. These slots receive the tongues or hooks 3 on the rear edges of the four other box parts comprising the front plate a, the two side plates 0 and the top plate cl. The said front plate also has tongues or hooks 4 at its side edges, see Fig. 6, which project through correspondingly located slots 5 in the said sides and are bent into clamping relations therewith. The said front plate is further provided with a substantially circular opening 6 in its top and center portion from the edge of which an arm 7 is struck and bent outward, and the bell 9 is supported on this arm outside said front over the hole 6.

The hammer h for the hell 9 is supported by a spring arm 10 which is supported in two loops l2 struck inward in the lower middle portion of .the front a and bent to a curvature substantially as seen in Fig. 2 so as to bring said hammer into striking position or relation to the lower portion of the bell. Having this construct-ion and arrangement of parts, the hammer is actuated or vibrated by means of a tongue 14: which may be the reversely bent end of the hammer supporting spring arm 10 as herein shown upon the immediate end of which the hammer is clamped, and which tongue is bowed downwardly at its inner free end and adapted to be operatively engaged by the rotatable wire shaft 8. The said shaft has a crank handle 15 and a substantially 8-shaped portion 16 at its middle bent out of the wire itself and adapted to engage the downwardly bent extremity of the tongue 14 and vibrate the hammer lb and cause the ringing of the bell. The said hammer has a slot transversely into which the flatly doubled end of spring 10 is inserted and the sides of the head are clamped thereon.

The fork f for the receiver, not shown, is attached to one side of the telephone by a suitable arm, and the mouth piece m is supported upon a tubular arm n fixed at its base on the raised portion 17 stamped into the back I).

The top plate 63 has an under-turned flange g at its sides adapted to slide inward over the lateral flange k on the sides of the box and is further held by projections on its rear edge through slots in the said base plate.

What we claim is:

1. A toy telephone having a substantially flat sheet metal base provided with rows of short slots lengthwise and transversely, a box consisting of four several sheet metal pieces having projections engaged in said slots and interlocked with each other, the front of said box having a circular hole in its middle upper portion and a bell supported onthe outside over said hole.

2. A toy telephone having a back plate and a box consisting of sheet metal lates fixed thereon, the front plate of said ox having an opening in its top central portions and an integral arm projecting Outward from the edge of said hole, and a bell supported hammern .on said arm. In testimony whereof We afiix our signa-- 3. A toy telephone comprising vsheet metal tures in presence of two Witnesses.

Walls having interlocking portions, one of MARCUS KANTER.

said Walls having an opening therein and a WILLIAM KANTER. bell mounted in front of said opening, in Witnesses:

combination With a spring hammer for said E. FISHER,

bell projecting through said opening, and R. B. MOSEB.

copies of this patent may he obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latenta, Washington, D. 0."

a crank member to engage said spring" 10' 

